On 2/8/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher(a)student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
G'day Steve,
Until now
Jimbo has had to step in whenever
people (especially cabal members) need to be told to cool off. He
shouldn't have to. Jimbo's role is being the face of the foundation and
being the last court of appeal. He has to handle all the Wikimedia
projects -- he shouldn't be spending his time tackling problems on the
English Wikipedia.
Agree. I suspect the only issue is getting people to trust the
authority and good sense of other people. They *must* be appointed
directly by Jimbo for that to happen, I think.
I suspect it still wouldn't happen. Witness [[User:God of War]]'s
actions on the CSD page; he's decided that Jimbo's word can't trump
consensus, and "consensus" is on his side, and therefore Jimbo can't
change the CSD to include particularly stupid templates.
To be fair the change is completely incosistant with the general scope
of CSD policy
What do we do about users --- most of them newbies,
most of them bound
up in some way with the userbox debacle --- who think Wikipedia is a
democracy, and any opposition is rogue admins gone Fascist? Standing
over them and saying "Jimbo says such-and-such! Respect his authority,
damnit!" probably wouldn't do much good.
--
Mark Gallagher
Prevent admins and Jimbo from doing silly things would be a start
--
geni